A limited edition artist’s book designed for photographer Jeff Barnett-Winsby. Jeff wanted to present his graduate thesis as a collection of thoughts bound together in an oversized journal. Fifteen Beginnings is a compilation of stories, letters, lists, and portraits.

I look for lights on and people awake. I look for those working and reeling and placed in unflattering industrial lighting and counting the seconds until they go to bed. I imagine their lives and the reason for their night job, their primary function as attendant or babysitter or whatever, and then I think of their function as place holder or scare crow. I wonder what place I hold and I make their picture. —Jeff Barnett-Winsby